Faculty Of Public Health

The Faculty of Public Health is the newest Faculty to be added to Sri Ramachandra University (SRU). While SRU has been engaged in research and training in Public Health for more than two decades (especially in the area of Occupational and Environmental Health), the offering of the Masters and Ph.D. programs in public health (MPH and PhD) by the university, served as the biggest catalyst for creating this faculty.

With financial support from the ITREOH program of The Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health USA, the International Integrated Experts Program of GTZ, Germany and collaborations with University of California Berkeley, USA, the Department of Environmental Health Engineering (EHE-SRU) has established some of the most extensive human resource capacities for public health research and academic training in India.

In its capacity as a WHO-Collaborating Center (since 2007) and ICMR Center for Advanced Research on Air Quality, Climate and Health (since 2010), EHE–SRU has been actively engaged in numerous national and regional capacity building activities as well as in policy relevant efforts concerning occupational and environmental health issues.

In the next phase of expansion, the faculty will be spanning its wings to other core areas of public health including epidemiology, biostatistics, nutrition and international health.